Plane and Pilot

JULY 22, 2025

I asked as I scoured the cockpit. Both cockpits are roomy, and comfortable. Both cockpits are roomy, and comfortable. The forward cockpit can fit two people. Before I knew it, the tail was ready to come up, so I pushed the stick forward. Where the heck is it?” Yeah, everybody misses it,” Finkbeiner said.

Runway

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Around this time, the USAAF was also developing its first jet fighters, but knew that all-jet aircraft at this time were short-ranged and burned fuel quicker than propeller-driven aircraft, and so the optimal design was to feature a propeller-driven engine in the front for long range performance and a jet engine in the tail for high speed in combat.

Thrust

Aerotime

MARCH 27, 2025

Following D-Day, as the war began to tail off, Yeager returned to fly combat missions, as Eisenhower yielded to Yaeger’s demands. These helped to minimize drag and ensure aerodynamic efficiency at high speeds. Nevertheless, Yeager remonstrated this point with Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower himself.

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Plane and Pilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Right after takeoff, you throw a grappling hook at the end of a short rope out of the cockpit. Its connected, along with a safety weak link, to the tail of the airplane. With skill (and some luck) the hook catches, the plane roars up to not drag the fabric along the ground, and the whole assembly is hoisted into the air.

Drag

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 18, 2025

Palmer and his team created wooden models of various airfoils, engine cowlings, and tail surfaces in a rented garage before bringing them to Caltech in Pasadena, where they utilized the school’s wind tunnel to test the designs until they were satisfied with the results. Army Air Corps’ newest and fastest fighter.

Cockpit

Fear of Landing

JULY 4, 2025

There was no cockpit voice recorder or flight data recorder installed. The pilot dragged the helicopter onto a helipad and removed the ground wheels, storing them safely before boarding the helicopter. CCTV footage showed the cockpit lights turn on and then the strobe lights started to flash. The fuel caught on fire.

Cockpit

Vintage Aviation News

JANUARY 14, 2025

However, since Convair was also developing the XF-92 delta wing prototype for a future Air Force interceptor, the design team at Convair, led by Ernest Stout, proposed a new delta wing aircraft with retractable hydro-skis for takeoffs and landings, a watertight hull, and a single delta tail.

Cockpit

Plane and Pilot

JULY 1, 2025

John Espe Cruiser Buhl, Idaho/Injuries: None NTSB Report: WPR23LA29 The pilot of the tailwheel-equipped airplane reported that, during the landing, he encountered a gusting tail wind. Probable cause(s): The pilot’s failure to maintain airplane control during landing with a gusting tail wind.

Density Altitude

Vintage Aviation News

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Air Force, in the cockpit of Convair F-106A Delta Dart 56-0467, at Edwards AFB, December 15, 1959, following his world speed record. Flying against Captain Tom Curtis, the two “Sixes” engaged in a “vertical rolling scissors” maneuver at 38,000 feet (11,600 meters), trying to get behind the other’s tail.

Pitot Tube

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

While the Martin Model 123 had open cockpits for a pilot, nose gunner/bombardier, and rear gunner, it was envisioned that these could be enclosed later in development. Indonesian locals survey the tail of Martin 139WH s/n M-531 shortly after its rediscovery. Th prototype of the Maartin B-10, the Martin XB-907, in flight.

Cockpit

Flying Magazine

JULY 31, 2025

Subscribe Now We pushed back from the gate in anticipation of a quick spray of Type I deicing fluid to melt a thin layer of frost on the wings and tail. We dragged our bags and our weariness into the hotel room. Subscribe today to get the issue as soon as it is released in either Print or Digital formats. The captain’s PA confirmed it.

Cockpit

Vintage Aviation News

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Additionally, the S-72 was equipped with a low-drag fuselage, allowing it to achieve a maximum speed of 340 knots in a dive. The aircraft featured a three-place cockpit with side-by-side seating for two test pilots and a flight test engineer. S-72 RSRA compound in flight.

Drag

Vintage Aviation News

JULY 23, 2024

This is consistent with the theory, as a displaced torpedo would have bulged the bomb bay doors, which wind resistance could then have pealed back – leading to a rapid increase in drag preventing the aircraft from gaining altitude at sufficient speed. The Helldiver’s wing center section at the crash site. photo via Kevin R.

Cockpit

Airspeed Junkie

AUGUST 2, 2024

Cockpit and Avionics Sitting in the cockpit of a Cessna 172, one is immediately struck by the advanced Garmin G1000 NXi avionics suite that dominates the instrument panel. First introduced in 2005, this all-glass cockpit revolutionized the flying experience for pilots by providing a comprehensive and intuitive interface.

Knot

Pilot's Life Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

Most Crucial Aircraft Components, From the Flight Crew to the Cockpit, Are in the Fuselage The body of an airplane is known as the fuselage. Pilots navigate the airplane forward in glass cockpits, which are located just over the aircraft’s nose. This long, metal tube connects all the main components of an airplane.

Horizontal Stabilizer

Fear of Landing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Flying in clouds of cold and warm fronts can lead to very small supercooled water droplets which build up as rime ice on the parts of the aircraft exposed to the wind: probes, antennas, and the leading edges of the wings and tail. During the conversation with the controller, there was the sound of a single chime on the cockpit voice recorder.

Knot

Pilot Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

And ice doesn’t just make things slippery, it messes with the airflow over the wings, cuts down on lift, and ramps up drag. Remember that wings, propeller blades, and tail surfaces are airfoil-shaped. This leads to a serious loss of lift and an increase in drag. If you don’t act quickly, you’ll soon feel its effects.

Pitot Tube

Fear of Landing

MARCH 22, 2024

Gradually used to replace metals on parts of aircraft tails, wings, engines, cowlings, and parts of the fuselage, composites reduce overall aircraft weight and improve operational efficiency. Glass cockpits are in use on commercial, military, and general aviation aircraft, and on NASA’s space shuttle fleet.

Wind Shear

Air Facts

JULY 1, 2024

After all the preliminaries, and in full command of the cockpit, we, my instructor and I, took off on a simulated flight from Teterboro, New Jersey enroute to Norfolk, Virginia (short flight) at 15,000 feet. He was in his forties when we flew together in his V-tail Bonanza. I hastily agreed. The Power Jockey. I did not touch the flaps.

Knot

Ask the Pilot

MARCH 13, 2025

I don’t which part irks me more: the boring typeface, the blank bottom, or the tail emblem, which is a neutered version of the one it replaces. Then we have the tail. GRADE: D-minus MINTY FRESH JetBlues livery features a grab bag of different tail patterns. Where do we start? Do we have any idea what this means?

Tail

Vintage Aviation News

APRIL 26, 2024

Photo copyright Russell Munson] On April 26th, 1964 a radial-powered biplane with wings and tail in Champion Yellow and Stearman Vermillion-painted fuselage took off from an airfield near Lumberton, NC. “The steel fuselage frame, tail surfaces, and landing gear have been repaired as needed, media blasted, and primed.

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 2, 2024

I move to the cockpit in search of a warmer spot and share some of the pilots’ candy. I’ll walk home if I have to, after that,” I hear someone say from the cockpit. He is beaming as he exits the cockpit. They were counted as they loaded up and sat between each other’s legs, facing the tail. Air Force C-130.

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

MAY 28, 2025

Before docking we have to shut down, remove our seat belts and headsets, get everything out of the way, and then someone has to jump out of the cockpit, onto the float, jump to the dock, grab the rope, tie the airplane down, and, oh, yeah, not fall in. This aint right, I said to Clinton as I peered down on him from the cockpit.

Rudder

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 22, 2024

We strapped into the cockpit, completed routine checks and procedures, started the engines, and taxied to the end of the runway. Load’s” relatively safe haven high in the tail section left him hanging upside down on steel-wire control cables, emulating a tree sloth. I was dragging tail.

Weight-Shift-Control

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 29, 2024

MiGs on your tail! All cockpit gauges confirmed critical systems were humming and happy. It felt like we were dragging an 18-wheeler truck! Functioning exactly as designed, those flat-plate boards sticking into the airstream were creating beaucoup drag, battling against the J-79s’ thrust. Four o’clock!” Break right!

Drag

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 7, 2025

Originally used as a trainer in World War II, the Stearman features a tandem, open cockpit with forgiving, yet challenging flight characteristics. Top that off with modern avionics, a roomy, comfortable cockpit, and its overall charm, Carbon Cubs are built for comfort and adventure. Thirty years ago, I got to fly Serial No.

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

True, a slightly higher aspect ratio wing was desired, which in turn required a larger vertical tail and thus a little extra mass, but the size, approximately 20% larger than a Widgeon, was set. The airfoil is a Harry Riblett shape, giving modernized flow separation on the leading edge for a soft stall yet with good lift and drag performance.

Airplanes

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Planespotters note the F2’s separate ailerons and flaps, conventional tail. Out back, theres an entirely new tail. Theres an unusual duck tail between the two elevator halves that provides a measure of anti-stall behavior. You’ll note a change in drag with final flaps accompanied by a mild pitch change.

Rudder

Vintage Aviation News

JUNE 24, 2024

Once the aircraft came to a halt, the pilot climbed out of the cockpit and waded to shore with the assistance of tourists who didn’t continue to film with their smartphones. Once the aircraft was dragged to a nearby parking lot, it was lifted into the air by a mobile crane lowered onto a flatbed trailer and driven back to Titusville.

Drag

Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 26, 2024

Soon after emerging from the cockpit, Lt. B-24D 41-23908 Hill AFB 19Mar2024 Veronico with restored Martin 250CE turret and tail turret as recovered from Alaska. Though the forward fuselage and wings were able to be reused, there were not nearly enough parts from the tail to reconstruct an intact section of the aircraft.

Weather

Vintage Aviation News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The Antonov A-7, the most successful Soviet combat glider of the Great Patriotic War (Soviet Air Force photo) However, one less than successful design by Oleg Antonov was the Antonov A-40, which paired a T-60 light tank with a disposable set of biplane wings and a twin-boom tail to be towed into the air and glide to the battlefield.

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